Check Point Advisories

Adobe Flash Player ActionScript NULL Pointer Dereferences (APSB12-14; CVE-2012-2039)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-269
Date Published: 18 Jun 2012
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Monday 18 June, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2012-2039
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A denial of service and remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability is due to a NULL pointer dereference condition in Adobe Flash Player. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted SWF file. Successful exploitation would cause Adobe Flash Player to crash or allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Flash Player ActionScript NULL Pointer Dereferences (APSB12-14) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Flash player actionscript null pointer dereferences (APSB12-14)

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